Chapter 22 Remembering Su Wan’s kindness
After listening to Su Wan’s words, Duan Jingtian’s heart was filled with fighting spirit. In Duan Jingtian’s subconscious mind, his family was already the most respectable family in Qingyun County, and he did not need to study so hard. Duan Jingtian’s parents had never made any demands on him.
Now Duan Jingtian has his own demands om himself.
For this reason, Duan Jingtian turned down invitations from other young masters from wealthy families and began to study hard.
Duan Jingtian longed to pass the imperial examination and decided to work hard for it.
The teachers in the school all felt the changes in Duan Jingtian, and they praised him more and more every day.
Duan Jingtian’s life became fulfilling, and Su Wan, who worked in Duan’s family, also lived a very comfortable life.
The Duan family provides Su Wan with food, accommodation and clothing. While Su Wan is required to cook three meals a day for Duan Jingtian. In addition, Su Wan also gives Duan Jingtian a midnight snack every day.
Although four meals were prepared, in Su Wan’s eyes it was an easy job. When cooking at the Duan family, whatever ingredients Su Wan needed were all prepared by the maids in the kitchen, and they were all washed and processed. If Su Wan hadn’t asked to cut the vegetables herself, then Su Wan would only need to be responsible for adjusting the flavor of the dishes. In short, cooking was very easy, not to mention the chores such as preparing firewood, burning fire and fetching water, which were all done by maids who specialized in doing these things.
So even though Su Wan cooks four meals a day, she has a lot of free time.
After making breakfast every day, Su Wan would go to the Duan family’s study to read various books. Su Wan read books on cooking, business, officialdom, and travel notes. Su Wan was very interested in all of them. Su Wan only read one book at a time, and would switch to another one when she had almost finished reading it.
When she was free in the afternoon, Su Wan would chat and laugh with the maids and servants in the kitchen. She would also often make snacks for the servants in the kitchen, such as fried spring rolls, steamed dumplings, pancakes, and spicy stew. The servants in the kitchen liked the snacks made by Su Wan very much.
(fried spring rolls)
( steamed dumplings)
(pancakes)
(spicy stew)
Su Wan sometimes also makes some cakes and snacks. The snacks Su Wan makes are different from those in ordinary snack shops. They are tastier and more unique than those in snack shops, and everyone in the kitchen likes them very much.
The old women, maids and servants in the kitchen all treated Su Wan very well. In addition, Su Wan would always leave a share of what she did for the Steward Li Fugui. It was not that Su Wan wanted to curry favor with Li Fugui, but Su Wan felt that Li Fugui was a righteous man. With Li Fugui’s help, she was able to get out of the Wang family so smoothly. As a person, one should be grateful, so Su Wan would always leave a share for Li Fugui.
When Li Fugui received the snacks and desserts made by Su Wan, he was reluctant to eat most of them and only ate a little bit himself. He took the rest back home for his children.
Li Fugui usually took good care of Su Wan, which made some people in the mansion uncomfortable. Everyone was so nice to Su Wan and did not dare to target her. Therefore, in this period of time in the mansion, those who liked Su Wan, needless to say, even those who disliked Su Wan had to force a smile when they saw her.
Su Wan thought about the life the original owner lived in the Wang family. Although the original owner did more for the Wang family and put in more effort, she did not receive any respect, let alone a word of praise. Instead, she was only despised and exploited. But here, all of Su Wan’s kindness and goodness were rewarded.
So, there is nothing wrong with being kind, but if kindness is used in the wrong place, it will hurt yourself.
Su Wan had a good time in the Duan family these days. Unlike in the Wang family, she did not have to eat poorly, sleep poorly, or do heavy work, so her health improved.
Su Wan gained some weight, and her cheeks, which were originally thin and shriveled, now had some flesh on them. Although she was still thin, she didn’t look as skinny as she had when she was at Wang’s house.
Su Wan’s originally dark skin became fair. At Wang’s house, Su Wan had to clean the yard, take care of the vegetable garden, feed chickens, and wash clothes outside the house every day. She was exposed to the wind and sun every day, and her skin became dark and rough. Now that she has come to Duan’s house, there is no work that Su Wan needs to do outside the house, because most of the houses in Duan’s house are connected by long corridors, and Su Wan doesn’t even need to bask in the sun.
Su Wan also put on clothes without patches.
As she was not as busy as she was at the Wang family, Su Wan also got herself a new hairstyle. Although it was still a very simple style that was convenient for work, it looked many times better than before.
Unconsciously, the current Su Wan has become a completely different person from the Su Wan when she first came from the Wang family.
Even Duan Jingtian, who was busy studying every day, gradually noticed the changes in Su Wan and began to pay attention to her.
Duan Jingtian noticed Su Wan’s changes, and Wang Luosheng and Li Sheng naturally noticed Su Wan’s changes as well.
Wang Luosheng’s family has been living in chaos these days, and Wang Luosheng himself has been living in disarray. He originally thought that hiring a maid would make things better, but the maid only cooked dinner and left the next day. His mother went to the human and horse market to look for a maid, but no one was willing to come. Before finding a new maid, the family could only continue to live like this, and Wang Luosheng was miserable.
That day, Wang Luosheng and Li Sheng came to Duan’s house to study again, and Su Wan brought in some midnight snacks.
In Wang Luosheng’s opinion, Su Wan sent him midnight snack just to find an excuse to see him. After all, the Duan family hired Su Wan only to cook three meals a day. She made this midnight snack out of self-indulgent desire. Firstly, she made midnight snack for herself when she was at home, and she was afraid that she would not be able to eat it after coming to Duan’s house. Secondly, it was to see him. After all, after coming to Duan’s house, this was her only chance to see him.
So before, Wang Luosheng hated Su Wan bringing him midnight snacks, especially when Su Wan changed her clothes and hairstyle. In Wang Luosheng’s eyes, Su Wan was just trying to attract his attention.
That day, Su Wan wore a crimson dress and brought over some midnight snacks.
Wang Luosheng looked up and suddenly felt that Su Wan was quite pretty. The red of her clothes made her skin look even whiter, as if she was a different person.
For some unknown reason, Wang Luosheng followed Su Wan out after she delivered the midnight snack.
“Su Wan.” Wang Luosheng called Su Wan.
“What’s wrong, Brother Luosheng.” Su Wan stopped and turned around.
Wang Luosheng asked, “How have you been these days?”
Su Wan smiled and said, “I’m living well in the Duan Mansion. The work in the Duan family is very leisurely, and the food and clothes are good. Brother Luosheng, you don’t have to worry about me.”
Hearing about how well Su Wan was doing reminded Wang Luosheng of his own family’s life. Wang Luosheng felt uncomfortable. He originally just wanted to stop Su Wan and say a few words, but after hearing this, Wang Luosheng emphasized to Su Wan: “At the end of the month, don’t spend your wages carelessly. Send them back home quickly. Do you hear me?”
Su Wan felt contempt for Wang Luosheng. What kind of man was this Wang Luosheng? It took the original owner so long to see through Wang Luosheng’s hypocrisy.
However, Su Wan did not intend to go against Wang Luosheng. Su Wan was living a good life now and did not want to cause trouble. Su Wan smiled and nodded.
As for the wages, Su Wan would naturally not let others decide on her money.
In fact, Su Wan had already spent some of her wages. She had calculated the cost of making snacks and desserts in the kitchen. After all, she used ingredients from the Duan family. Su Wan planned to pay the cost of making these extra foods after receiving her wages.
Seeing Su Wan agreed obediently, Wang Luosheng felt relieved and said in a gentle voice: “Eat well every day and take care of yourself.”
Wang Luosheng had never said such words to the original owner, and had never given her a good look. Today, the sun was rising from the west.
“Brother Wang, don’t worry. The Duan family will naturally take good care of Sister Su Wan.” The speaker was Duan Jingtian.
Just now, Wang Luosheng followed Su Wan out for some unknown reason, and Duan Jingtian also followed Wang Luosheng out for some unknown reason.
Duan Jingtian saw that Wang Luosheng had never spoken a word to Su Wan these days, but went out with Su Wan today. Duan Jingtian felt a little strange and went out involuntarily.
Wang Luosheng saw Duan Jingtian coming out and said, “Thank you, Brother Duan, for taking care of my sister Su Wan.”
Duan Jingtian felt a little uncomfortable.
After Wang Luosheng and Li Sheng left, Duan Jingtian went to the guest room where Su Wan lived and said to Su Wan from outside the window, “I won’t give your wages to the Wang family, and you don’t have to give them either.”
Su Wan sat up from the bed and said, “Thank you, Brother Duan.”
After Wang Luosheng finished his work at the mill, he returned home. The house was as messy as ever, which was very upsetting.
After Mrs. Qian left that day, his mother couldn’t find anyone to hire in the horse and human market. It was strange, hiring a maid was such a simple matter, but how could his mother not do it?
Another thing is that the neighbors around here don’t have maids or old women, and their families are not as messy as his. Why is it that here in my family, we have females but still can’t clean up the house ?
To be more specific, my mother and sister are too lazy. If Su Wan were here…
Wang Luosheng was shocked by his own thoughts. If Su Wan were here… He had always thought that Su Wan was useless, but now it seemed that Su Wan was still useful.
If Su Wan had not earned three or four times the salary at the Duan family, Wang Luosheng would have planned to call Su Wan back to the Wang family.
Oh, let my mother find a maid as soon as possible.
Wang Luosheng came to his mother and said, “Mother, you have to find another maid from the horse and human market as soon as possible.”
When the Mrs Wang heard this, she became very emotional: “I have been wondering why there are no maids coming to work in our house these days. Today I learned from that Li Yapo that it was all that was done by that Mrs Qian .”
“It would be fine if Mrs. Qian didn’t work at our house, but when she returned to Renma City, she actually said that our work was the work of more than a dozen people, which scared away all the women and made them dare not come to work at our house.”
“That old woman Qian is just talking nonsense. There are only four people in our family. How much work can there be? We can finish it easily. It’s obviously because she is lazy and greedy that she made up this story about our family.”
Wang Luosheng frowned. He didn’t like his mother’s talkativeness, which was really disrespectful.
Besides, since the housework can be done easily, my mother and sister can do it, so why bother hiring a maid?
